Game won't start or stop

[Rightful Rogue]

After installing the game (it isn't my first time installing but has been about a year), I find that the game will not even start. I don't get a splash screen nor do I hear music. Nothing. After around an hour (I was curious if it ever would initialize) of waiting and realizing the game wasn't starting at all, I attempt to close the game by opening Steam, and in Library, I click on the 'Stop' button.
It then remains on 'Stopping' indefinitely. I cannot close the game from the Task Manager.

Curiously, if I close Steam and reopen it, it indicates that the game is 'Running'. I can find the executable in the Details of Task Manager but I do not have the permission to end the process.

I'm not sure if the issues are related at all but I was not able to get the Steam Cloud to sync either.

I don't have a clue where to start. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Smurphilicious]

Same issue. I have around 800hrs in the game, reinstalled it recently and it won't start. Removed all workshop mods, deleted the folders suggesting in the FAQs, verified local files, disabled cloud sync, nothing fixes it. Even task manager can't shut down the infinite 'stopping' state, requires restarting the PC each time.

[GIJoe597]

Rightful Rogue

Delete any saves you have and turn off all cloud saves, Steam/One Drive, etc. You are trying to sync a 1 year old save with the current version of the game, not gonna work.



Smurphilicious

Try the following if using Windows Defender;

Click on the defender icon, bottom right.

Select Virus and Threat protection

In the Ransomware Protection section (at bottom), click on Manage ransomware protection.

If Controlled Folder Access is set to ON

click on Allow an app through Controlled folder access, click yes.

Here should be a list of recently blocked apps. Among them you should/may find;
TaleWorlds.MountAndBlade.Launcher.exe
Bannerlord.exe


If one or both are there;
Click on the option to Add an allowed app
select recently blocked apps
click the plus sign next to one, or both of the above files if they are there

It would not hurt to reboot/restart your computer after this.

[Smurphilicious]

SOLVED it, might work for you, might not. Some of the mod config folders in Documents weren't able to be deleted, it kept giving me a "Error 0x8007016A: The Cloud File provider is not running." I always uninstall one drive so I'm not sure how this happened.

Solution was to create a new folder, moved the files I was unable to delete into the new folder. Then deleted the new folder with the bad files, no error message. Game launched with no delay.

[elysebluemoon]

Can you try deleting the "...\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\bin" folder and verifying your game files?
(BSS-5787)

[Rightful Rogue]

Originally posted by Smurphilicious:

SOLVED it, might work for you, might not. Some of the mod config folders in Documents weren't able to be deleted, it kept giving me a "Error 0x8007016A: The Cloud File provider is not running." I always uninstall one drive so I'm not sure how this happened.

Solution was to create a new folder, moved the files I was unable to delete into the new folder. Then deleted the new folder with the bad files, no error message. Game launched with no delay.

This is what I found as well, on another site. It was fixed some time ago and I only just now saw the responses to my question. Very rude of me.

However, this is it. This fixed it. I've seen so many others with this problem; I hope they see this post.


Thank you very much, to all that replied. Sorry I didn't acknowledge you sooner.

[Rightful Rogue]

Originally posted by elysebluemoon_TW:

Can you try deleting the "...\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\bin" folder and verifying your game files?
(BSS-5787)

Hello Elyse,
Unfortunately, this didn't address it. It had to do with old files that were in a sync loop or something. After disallowing OneDrive and purging the files in there, I could re-verify and all was well. I even re-modded the crap out of game again. Great mods out there.

Thanks for your help!